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Re:Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hed... by comte7092 on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:50PM (#34841702)
That’s all well and good, but when these issues come up, people seemingly turn their brains off and repeat “tyranny of the majority” without evaluating the empirical reality of how these systems function in practice.

I’m amenable tot he notion that there should be some guardrails on simple majoritarianism, but it shouldn’t follow that all anti majoritarian rules are good.

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Re:Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hed... by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:02PM (#34843444)
We do have guardrails. The constitution puts various things off-limits to any sort of majoritarian process of regular governing.

Should there be more things off-limits? Should there be less? Intelligent people could disagree, but the off-limits category already exists and there is a process to change what is in it.

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